Part 1.
Beginning Chess! Understanding the Rules

01 | Chessboard
02 | Chess Pieces
1 Starting position of the piece
2 Pieces that move in a straight line: Rook
3 Pieces that move diagonally: Bishop
4 Most Powerful Piece: Queen
5 Most Important Pieces: King
6 Pieces with special moves: Knight
7 Pieces needed for a strategic game: Pawns
03 | Check, Checkmate, and Stalemate
1 Attack the King! Check
2 The Object of Chess! Checkmate
3 Stalemates! Why is this a draw?
4 Other Draw Rules
04 | Special Rules of Chess
1 Castling
2 Promotion
3 En Passant
05 | How to Read and Write Chess Records
06 | Chess Etiquette
1 Touch Move
2. Chess Greeting Methods
07 | Basic Checkmate Patterns
1 step mate
2 King + Queen vs King
3 kings + rook checkmate

Part 2.
The ability to read numbers! Chess tactics

01 | The Value of Pieces and Attack and Defense
1. Value of the object
2 attacks
3 defenses
4 Attacking & defending with multiple pieces (counting)
02 | Fork
03 | Pin
1 Absolute pin and relative pin
Attack with additional pieces when 2 pins are placed
Attack the area guarded by the three-pinned object.
04 | Skewers
05 | Discovered Attack
06 | Removing the guard
07 | Overload
08 | Decoy
09 | In-between Move
10 | Trapped Piece
11 | Interference

Part 3.
Checkmate Patterns for Winning Games

01 | Back-rank Mate
02 | Battery Mate
03 | Smothered Mate
04 | Arabian Mate
05 | Anastasia's Mate
06 | Boden's Mate
07 | Greco's Mate
08 | Legal's Mate
09 | Blackburne's Mate
10 | Pillsbury's Mate
11 | Greek Gift
12 | Lasker's Double Bishop Sacrifice

Part 4.
The Beginning of a Great Game! The Chess Opening

01 | Opening Principles and Ideal Development
1. Take the center with your pawn.
2 Deploy various pieces to the center as quickly as possible.
3. Secure the king's safety by castling.
02 | Deepening the Opening Principles
1 If you don't have a strategy, don't move a piece twice in the opening.
2 Deploy the knight before the bishop
Don't take the 3 queens out of the opening too quickly.
4. Don't develop a story that loses tempo.
5. Minimize unnecessary phone movement.
03 | Guicco Piano
04 | Queen's Gambit Declined
05 | Sicilian Defense: Dragon Variation

Part 5.
Let's strategize! The middle game of chess

01 | Elements of Position Evaluation
1 Difference in objects
2 King's Safety
3 Activity of the object
02 | How to Use Bishops
1 Open and closed positions
2. The concept of good bishop and bad bishop
03 | How to Use Knight
04 | Utilizing the Look
1 Open file
7th rank of 2 looks
3 Look Lift
05 | Use of the area
Occupy Area 1
How to utilize the 2 areas
06 | Phone Structure
1 Isolated phone
2 lagging phones
3 double phone

Part 6.
The endgame of chess to ensure victory

01 | Basic Principles of the Endgame
02 | The Law of Squares
03 | Opposition and Key Spaces
1. The concept and use of opposition
2. Concept of core cells
3 Key cells of the look phone
04 | The Importance of Passing Phones
1. Concept of a passed phone
2 Outside Passed Pawn
05 | Wrong Color Bishop
06 | Opposite-Color Bishop Endgame

Practice Problem Explanation

Chess is a board game known to improve logic and concentration and is excellent for brain development.
Recently, interest in chess, which is considered a game that makes children smarter, has grown, attracting attention among parents who want to develop their children's logical thinking skills.
Chess has already been incorporated into the formal education curriculum in many countries around the world, and is being used in various ways, including being adopted as an official event at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.


The author said that he first encountered chess by chance and thought it was a simple game of capturing pieces, but after coming into contact with a chess education program, he learned that it was a world filled with countless tactics and strategies for winning, and that it actually changed the course of his life.
He also said that the world of chess felt like an infinite and boundless universe, and that it was a fascinating game filled with the thoughts and research of countless people on how to improve.
However, while studying chess on my own, I had a hard time finding proper chess information in Korea.
I lived with an English dictionary to read foreign chess books, and I was at a loss as to what to study or which books to buy.
Therefore, I wrote this book because I felt that there was a need for a proper introductory book on chess that could be easily and quickly learned by those who want to learn the charm of chess.


First, this book is organized according to the important thought process of what is needed to play chess well.
Second, we briefly introduce the rules of a winning chess game and 12 tips for improving your chess skills.
Third, it provides a detailed introduction to how to understand the rules of chess, chess tactics, checkmate patterns, the basic principles of the opening game/middle game/end game, and strategies and tactics for winning games.
Fourth, you can learn strategies and tactics by watching various chess situations through videos using the QR codes provided in the text.


This book will introduce you to the fascinating world of chess, and you will be able to learn all the theories you need to get started in chess.